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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
Valuable Animals.

"How much is the contents Of your house
WORTH" asked an insurance agent of a Kas-
kaskia farmer.
-Four hundred dollars"
"Why, you don't seem TO have much house
hold goods. Why do you consider them SO
valuable?"
"The goods Amt very valuable, but those
two dogs Is worth hundred dollars apiece
and they sleep in the house every night
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
PRE- TRADE.

The reduction of internal revenue and the TAX
ing OF OF revenue stramps from Proprietary Med
icines, no doubt has largely benefited the con-
sumers as well as relieving the burden Of home
manufacturers. Especially is this the case with
Green's August Flower and Boschee's German
Syrup, as the reduction of thirty-six cents per
dozen has been added to increase the size of the
bottles containing these remedies, thereby giving
one-fifth more medicine in the 70 cent size. The
August Flower for Dyspepsia and Liver Com:
plant. and the German Syrup for Cough and
Lung troubles, have perhaps. thn largest sale OF
any medicines in the world. The advantages oil
increased size of the bottles will be greatly ap-
preciated by the sick and afflicted In every town
and village In civilized countries. Sample bot
ties for 10 cents remain the same size.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
* JEFFERsoN DAVIS
An Alleged Letter From the Ex-
Confederate Chief


DANvILLE, ILL.,, June 23.-The follow
ing letter was received to-day:
BEAUyoIR, Miss, June 23.-Col Phoeion
Howard, Danville, Ill.-Dear Sir: In answer
to your letter Of request by the Danville
Farmers and Mechanics institute that 1
should deliver an address at its fair, reply
as did last year. Some years ago delivered
an address at the Winnebago county fair and
was received with great courtesy. There
was among friends, for my memory vent
back to the months of June, July AMI Au-
August, 1882, when, as a lieutenant upon the
staff of Co; Zach Taylor, | was stationed at
Prairie du Chien, or Fort Crawford, as it was
then known, and during the memorable and
historical Black Hawk war it was my good
fortune to help in protecting the pioneer
settlers or That country, whose descendants
spoke to at Rockford, / cannot come to Hill
nois this year Thanking the association
through you, l have only to say, as l said last
September in open letter to Col. j..
7. Scharr, of Baltimore, that I deny
the charges made against me by Gen. William
T. Sherman in which he says 1 was fore
most in encouraging the late war. I say to
you, my dear Colonel, that / did all i'll my
power to prevent the late war, and that l
never looked for nor aspired to the post of
States. may say that the order of the war
department to return the captured flags to
the late Confederate states was violation of
all known military precedentS. You will
find in my history of the late war that there
were twentysi regiments of regular troops
in the army of the North, and of the total of
$50 Confederate flags captured it is question
able ii these twenty-siX regiments captured
unteer army of the North and belong to the
several states and have no right to be in the
national capital, Respectfully yours,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
MORE: 1t may be that the above letter is
not authentic. Mr.. Davis never spoke at
Rockford, although he accepted an invita-
ton to do SO, which , was Cancelled because
of popular protest against his coming. AS
for "Phocion'' Howard he never was a
telegram.-ED.1
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
A SIGNIFICANT VISIT.

Doubtless "LooSH' FAIRCHII.D and
other somewhat overheated members of
certain G. A. r. posts have heard of the
visit of Robert E. Lee Camp of Confed-
crate veterans to Boston. Doubtless
they know that no state furnished more
ardent, earnest and hard-fghting SOL
dierS to the Union army. Perhaps, for
most of them are intelligent, they have
read how the Boston veterans have feted
the Richmond veterans, how they have
taken them to their homes, entertained
them i'll every possible way and made
much of them, just as though they were
brothers in fact. But our excited friends
of these certain G. A. r. posts
seem to have missed the les
son of fraternity, of sympathy
and of good feeling which
this significant visit of the South to the
North should teach. They have been
forming such terrible columbiads anent
the question Of a few trumpery flags
that they have perhaps not had time to
observe what has been going on in BoS-
ton at the same time.
And yet, if cause there is for indig-
nation. ought not the Boston veterans,
the memory of whose bravery yet re-
mains. to be ashamed of themselves for
wasting time and sympathy over the
Richmond veterans, in strengthening
anew the ties which bind the Union now
in a frmer bond than ever? Ought
they not 10 feel the uttermost remorse
because, arm in arm with the Southern
braves, they were speedily forgetting
the horrors of conflict in the joys of
fraternity, while their Western brethren
were industriously engaged in raking
the ashes and tanning the embers of
sectional feeling?
Or ought they rather to feel that in
aiding to remove even the remembrance
of that awful time when brothers took
up arms against each other, they were
adding new luSter to the heroism which
they so frequently displayed quarter
of a century ago?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
WILL NOT SUIT.

Senator RANSOM, of North Carolina.
is authority for the statement that Sec
rotary LAMAR will be appointed to fill
the vacancy on the supreme court bench
and that ex-senator HENRY G.. DAVIS,
of West Virginia, will succeed Mr.. La
MAR in the interior department. Sena-
tor RANSOM has close relations with the
president and probably knows what he
is talking about. At the same time it
will occur to the country at large that
there would be singular lack of judi
ciousness in both appointments. Both
positions require to be filled by lawyers
of eminent qualifications. Mr.. LAMAR
may be a good enough lawyer for the in
terror department, but if he has any
qualifications for the supreme bench he
has heretofore been an underestimate
man. 1t is true that he is lawyer by
profession, but his life has been almost
wholly devoted to politics. The knowl-
edge man acquires during long con-
gresSional career does not qualify him
for the supreme bench. More than that,
Mr.. LAMAR is too old to go on the
supreme court bench. A man who is
past sixty is not physically capacitated
for the laborious duty of that office.
And as for Senator DAVIS, who is the
successor named by Senator RANSOM
for the interior department, he is no
lawyer at all. He is man of splendid
business qualifications and would prob
ably make good secretary of the treas
ury, but would be utterly at sea in the
interior department. Mr.. LAMAR has
just fairly succeeded in mastering the
duties of the office that lie now holds,
and under the circumstances it would
probably be best to leave him where he
is most useful and let ex-senator DAVIS
bide his time for promotion. In the
meantime the president can confer a
great service on the country by ap-
pointing a young, brainy lawyer to fill
the vacancy on the supreme bench.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
COL. DUDLEY's EXAMPLE.

Col. w. W. DUDLEY, late commits
sioner of pensions, now superintendent
of construction of the cable line in st.
Paul, is already well and favorably
known in this city. Excellent as is the
impression he has already made, it will
without doubt be bettered if he COM
pletes the cable road within the prom
iSed time.
But Col. DUDLEY has still another
claim, besides his pleasing personality,
for consideration. He is the only Re-
publican Officeholder of prominence who
has resigned. Though he was occupy
ing an exceedingly comfortable posi-
ton, his earnestneSS as a Republican,
and his ideas of fairness, would not per-
nit him to hold office under a Demo-
cratic administration to whose princi-
pies he was opposed. Col. DUDLEY,
with commendable celebrity, accordingly
stepped out and deserving Democrat
stepped in.
1t is pity that the eolonel's example
has not been followed by other Repub-
licans still holding office. But as these
gentlemen seem more in love with the
jingle of the guinea than the jewel of
consistency, it is still greater pity that
the administration is prevented by
absurd seruples and squeamishness
from assisting in their stepping out with
yigOr and dispatch.
Secretary WHITNEY was eminently
correct. 1.-The best interests of the gov
eminent would be subserved by a
change throughout"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24

without following. 1t is a big price Cit
lien McGLYNN pays for adherence to
his resolution not to submit to dietation,
and it is an unwise one.
In his character of priest he should
have recognized the necessity for diSci-
pline. AS a member of the priesthood
1t was his duty to observe his vows and
yield to his SuperiOrs just as much as it
is the duty of the lieutenant to obey his
captain. But he could have easily
changed all that. If dictation was
CALLING to him, he had but to
resign his prieStly office and
he would have been free to advocate
whatsoever doctrines he pleased with
out bringing faint upon his holy calling.
1t might even have been better had he
made his peace with Rome as one of
her priests and then resigned his office
to devote himself to his chosen field.
In any event Citizen MCGLYNN has
been taught pretty severe lesson to
the effect that it will not do to mix
religion and politics, and the more he
looks into the matter the more universal
will he find the conviction among
Americans that the clergyman, no mat
ter what his sect, should stick to his
cloth and in no way contaminate it with
things worldly.
But there will be few dissenting
voices in expressing the hope that Citi-
zen MeGLYNN may some time again be-
come DR.. MCGIYNN, the earnest and
revered priest of other days.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
THE STOCK MARKET.
AT New York 1t Was Affected by
Sensational Rumors.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
New YORK, June 23.-Sensational
rumors from Chicago and Cincinnati
sent the market all heller SHELTER to-day
and gave the bears chance to force
good securities down 3 and per cent.
Singularly enough New Workers knew
nothing of the disturbance until anx-
ious inquiries had begun to come in
from Western cities. Even Boston and
Philadelphia came in for share of at
tention, and although there is probably
not the slightest foundation for the
stories of trouble in those cities, they
helped along the depression at the stock
exchange, especially as it is known that
Boston for some time has experienced a
boom in railroad and other stocks. Dur
ing the greater part Of the day opera
tons were controlled by fear that the
Fidelity bank failure at Cincinnati might
prove something more that local
affair, and that the disastrous results of
the late wheat speculation would lead
to heavy HquidationS in the stock mar
ket for Western account. The increased
difficulty experienced by borrowers in
securing finds aggravated matters, and
when it was made apparent by sudden
advance i'll the rate for call loans to Is
per cent. that the market was most
susceptible to manipulation there was
qnite skurrying on the part of the
weak holders to get out. Some of the
more prominent operators, quick to see
the drift of things, also sold heavily and
room traders, almost to a man, helped
along the decline by putting out fresh
short lines. The rallies that occurred,
and they were quite frequent, were due
more tOpurchaseS to realize the profits
offered by the low prices than to any
other cause. The shares which
declined 2 per cent. or over
were Union Pacific, Western
Union, Missouri Pacific, st. Paul
IL Duluth, New Jersey Central, Norfolk
d Western preferred, Richmond IL
West Point terminal, and New York &
New England. The four last named
stocks yielded as much as or per
cent. In addition to these disquieting
influences there are apprehensi0ns that
the clearing house statement of Satur-
day will show falling off in the surplus
revenue, which is only about 81, COO, 900,
margin which could be easily wiped
ont by weeks transactions,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
Some Summer Snake Stories.

A small rattlesnake was recently
found in a mail pouch when it was I'M
locked at MOrrow'S Station, near For
syth. Ga. How it got there is mystery.
Five New Jersey lads living at Flat
brookville captured ten rattleSnakes on
the Blue mountains. They secured
them alive by means of forked sticks.
Waterton, the famous Englishman,
once caught, Single-handed, snake
ten feet long. D'Albertis, the explorer
of New Guinea, dragged out snake
thirteen feet long.
A copperhead bit Farmer William
Winters, of Davidson county, KY, on
the hand while he was planting sweet
potato slips and killed him. He suf-
fered intensely, his body swelling to
double its natural size.
An owl and snake, both dead, were
found by Edward Schwartz, of ella Sta
ton, Ark. The snake was tightly en-
twined about the neck and left wing of
the owl, the latter having the tail of the
snake in its beak.
The marshal of WaynSboro, Ca,
Killed eleven moccasin snakes with his
revolver, but the reptiles still kept COM
ing from under old logs in such numbers
that he was forced to retreat. The
Citizen says the marshal is man Of
yeraeity and wholly temperperate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
A WILL CONTEST,
Which Had Its Origin in a Presi-
dental Campaign.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, June 23.-During the po-
litieal campaign of 1880 child was born
to Mrs. Lizzie Hamburger, wife of
Frank Hamburger, which, in spite of
the strenuous opposition of the hus-
band, who was Democrat, she named
Arthur Chester. Mrs. Hamburger's
father-in-law, Charles Hamburger. a
Washington market butcher. was even
more incenSed over the christening and
in making his will soon AFTERWARDS cut
off the little fellow with only $50. The
remainder of the property, valued at
100000, was, after the creation of a
trust fund for the testator's wife, ulti-
mately to be divided among his three
daughters and his son Otto. The
butcher, his wife and son Frank are all
dead, and the will has been admitted to
probate. Now, however, Mrs. Frank
Hamburger has brought suit for proper
construction of the instrument, claiming
that as her mother-in-law died before
her father-in-law the requests made to
her in the will are void, and that the
boy, Arthur Chester, as one of the heirs
at law, is entitled to one-ffth of this
trust fund, estimated at $4,000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
CITIZEN MGLYNN.

1t is now no longer ''Dr." McGLYNN.
The forty days of grace allowed the
former priest to appear at Rome and
answer to the charges against him will
expire on July 2. He is now some
where in New York state, and it would
be impossible, even did he desire, for
DR.. MCGLYNN to reach Rome within
the prescribed time. This failure to
obey the order carries with it excom-
munication, and henceforth instead of
being doctor" he will be Citizen Nc
GLYNN; no less, however, the soggarth
aroon, the dear priest, to the pleple to
whose spiritual wants he miniStered be-
cause his ministrations are now forbid
den by his church. Citizen McGLYNN's
adherence to the misleading doctrines
OF HENRY GEORGE have led him into
an unfortunate extreme, though
no one doubts his earnestness
and sincerity. AS the people
grow tired of their hobby, for doctrines,
like fashions, have their vogue, their
periods of rising and decadence, he will
be deserted by his now ardent admirers,
and finally in his old age be left neg
lected and alone, without profession and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
MINNEAPOLIS EXPOSITION.

There is every indication that the
Minneapolis Exposition will be a greater
success this year than last. Already
the applications for space far exceed the
ability of the managers to accommodate
the would-be exhibitors, and the incest
discrimination will have to be exercised
in the allotment. But while foreign
exhibitors should, so far as possible, be
gratified. there should be liberal allow
ance for home exhibitors, and not only
that, but the merchants and mauufac-
turerS of the two cities should
take advantage of their oppor-
tunity more literally st. Paul was
in no respect satisfactorily repre-
sented at the Exposition last year, and
it IS of the greatest Importance
that she should not suffer through
comparison with other places. Out
side merchants appreciate the
value of the Northwest as a market and
they are only too glad to get an eppor-
tunity such as the Exposition affords, to
display their wares. Business men of
the Twin Cities should therefor be
alive to the competition, and meet it by
furnishing exhibits of such character
that visitors will have no doubt, what
ever as to the advisability of purchas-
ing at home instead of abroad.
We hope to see the merchants of both
st. Paul and Minneapolis exceptionally
well represented at the Exposition this
year. They are neglecting their own
interests if they are not.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
CATHARTIC POLITICS.

A British peerage is getting to be a
very cheap piece of property. There
was time when it was distinction to
be coveted, because it was either the
badge of genuine nobility or was con-
ferred for most eminent public services.
1t is perhaps accountable to the growth
of Democratic sentiment in England
that patent pill vender stands as much
show for title of nobility as one who
deScendS in direct line from the HAIR
oLDs. 1t is more probable, however,
that the cause for this Cheap John plan
of dispensing rank can be traced to the
mereenary spirit which pervades the
circle of English gentry. The extrava-
ganees of the British nobility are noto-
rious, and there must be something to
keep up the private exehequer of those
i'll authority. So that it has come to
pass prime minister, as often as any
way, iquidates his debts by the confer
ment of baronetcy or peer
age. The soap boilers and the
pill peddlerS who amass fortunes
are always ready to exchange part of
their accumulations for ribbon, a gar
ter or parchment which will be to
them certificate of geptility and will
be a passport into aristocratic
circles. They buy the badge of nobil-
ity just as they would case of dia-
monds, and they always know where to
go to get it. The British cabinet is the
dispenser of these gaudy insignia and
the ministers know how to drive sharp
bargains. The goods are put up to the
highest bidder and a rivalry stirred
up among the wealthy plebeians. In
this way big prices are usually obtained.
Inasmuch as English peerages have
degenerated to the plane of CONNER
cial article, there seems to be an appro-
priateness in selling out one of the
highest in rank to the inventor of the
the compound cathartic pill. England
owes most of its modern prosperity to
the patent liver regulator. England's
greatest drawback has been its bilious
ness. The torpid liver is responsible
for most of the bloody wars which
have deluged Europe. The freedom
of Queen VIoToRIA's half cen.
tury reign from wars and entangling
alliances has been due more to the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24

The GLOBE is gratitied to announce
that its suggestion to the city authori-
relative to the necessity for putting a
stop to reckless driving, has been
needed. The police have been doing
admirable work within the last two or
three days in this direction. A num-
Der of arrests have been made and the
reckless drivers, who have been accus-
toned to plunge along the streets with
out regard to the safety of peaceable
citizens, are being made to understand
that there is law in Israel. We COM
mend the activity of the police officials
in this matter and urge them to go for
ward in the good work with the aSsur-
ance that public sentiment sustains
them. Reckless driving must be
stopped, and the only way to do it is to
enforce the law against it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
Countess Campos Arrives in England,
and Flatly Refuses to Abandon
Fer Untitled Sweetheart.
"A Plan on Foot to Depose King Otto, the
= Helpless Insane Monarch Of
. Bavaria.
France Trying to Secure the Good Will
a Of Spain by Making Important
- Concessions.
A Budget Of News From Ireland Jubilee
81 Eehoes---News From Over
the Sea.

10 LONDON. June 23.-The Countess
sCampos, the young heiress who was
carried off from Paris by her lover, has
arrived in England and is stopping at
Dover. Countess CampoS was accom-
panied to Dover by Caribou, her lover,
and three other gentlemen. The CAM
pos family agent and French detect
i've armed with a warrant visited the
hotel where the countess is stopping,
accompanied by the Spanish consul.
The consul explained to Mile. Campos
how her family felt over her abduction,
and that the warrant for her arrest was
to recover her from her abductor and
restore her to her family. She declared
that she wished to marry Caribou and
that she was not a prisoner against her
will. Upon this declaration the English
police refused to sanction her arrest, as
she was of legal age and qualified to act
for herself.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
sarah,s Neglected Manners.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Up in the mountains about Marietta,
Ga, we came across tall, barefooted,
barelegged girl, apparently about
twenty years old, who sat ON the ground
in front of log cabin with her feet in
a sand pile. She made no move to get
up, and her mother, who came to the
door as we rode up, noticed her and
yelled out:
Sarah! Sarahp'
'What?" drawled Sarah.
''Whar's yer manners?'
s'Hain't got none"
''Oh, you hain't! Gentlemen, excuse
mel"
'She picked up a limb and started for
Sarah. Sarah jumped up, got whaclS
on the back as she lodged stump, and
as she sailed over the bush fence in front
of the house the limb took her again
with all proper energy.
''No, she hain't got no manners. and
that's SOL said the mother, as she flung
down the weapon and came back to us.
81 want her to chop wood and hoe corn
and read Shakespeare, and the old nan
he wants her to trap and shoot and
learn Latin, and betwixt the hauling
and pulling we've got her manners all
upSOt."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24
DAnother southern Enterprise.

NEW YORK, June 23,-The CONNER
cial Advertiser says: Negotiations are
said to be going on in this city looking
to the removal of the works of the
United States Rolling Stock company
situated, to Decatur, Ala. The COM
pany is one of the largest car manufac-
turing companies in the country. Maj.
T.. c. Gordon, of the Decatur Land I'm
provement and Furnace company,
is in New York, and it is
understood that he is conducting
the negotiations for the Alabama par
ties. He declines to discuss the matter
lust now. The company represented
by Maj. Gordon has capital Of 1,000,-
600, all of which. except $4,000, was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-24

bill out of her money. This, it seems,
is customary in Philadelphia when a
young gentleman's means are somewhat
limited. 1t relieves his lady friends of
the embarrassment they might other
wise feel on partaking of any entertain
ment at his cost. 1t struck the New
York girl, however, as being very ridicu-
lous, and she began to laugh. 81 fear
you are laughing at my expense" said
the young man: Let me explain" 30,
eXpense!"